Startup profile for Notion: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.

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Notion funding, valuation and investors

All-in-one workspace for docs, wikis, databases, and AI-assisted knowledge work.

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Funding, valuation & investors

Answer-first snapshot

Latest funding

Series C/D

$275M · October 2021

Latest known valuation

$10B

Series C/D · October 2021

Total disclosed equity funding

$325M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

growth · San Francisco, CA

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Coatue , Sequoia

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Notion is an all-in-one workspace combining documents, wikis, databases, project management, and AI writing assistance. Used by millions of teams and individuals for knowledge management and collaboration. a16z, Coatue, Index Ventures, and Sequoia participated in rounds including a $275M financing in October 2021 at a $10B valuation.

Why Notion is interesting

Productivity OS for startups and teams — a16z investor as Notion became AI features battleground against Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.

Product & use cases

Notion provides flexible block-based pages that combine notes, databases, kanban boards, calendars, and embedded content — with AI features for writing, summarization, and Q&A across workspace content.

  • Team wikis and knowledge bases
  • Project management and task tracking
  • AI-assisted document creation and search

Key facts

  • Series C (Apr 2020): $50M at $2B led by Index — Notion blog
  • Financing (Oct 2021): $275M at $10B co-led by Coatue and Sequoia — Forbes
  • a16z investor across rounds

Funding history (newest first)

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Notion's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Competitive landscape

Edge: Flexible block-based architecture lets teams build custom workflows without code — viral PLG adoption among startups and creators.

Notion won startup and SMB mindshare with PLG and flexibility. Microsoft and Google respond with AI-enhanced workspace tools. Notion's AI features and template ecosystem are the retention moat; enterprise penetration continues vs. Atlassian and Microsoft.

  • Confluence (Atlassian) incumbent

    Enterprise wiki and documentation.

  • Coda direct

    Doc-database hybrid workspace.

  • Microsoft Loop/365 incumbent

    Microsoft's Notion competitor.

  • Google Workspace incumbent

    Docs, Sheets — less flexible workspace.

Notable stories

  • Notion nearly died in 2015 before pivoting to its current block-based workspace model — the pivot that created one of the fastest-growing productivity tools of the 2020s.

Industries

Enterprise SaaS Consumer AI & Machine Learning

FAQs about Notion

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

All-in-one workspace for docs, wikis, databases, and AI-assisted knowledge work.
a16z (/fund/andreessen-horowitz), Coatue (/fund/coatue), Index (/fund/index-ventures), and Sequoia (/fund/sequoia).
Notion is flexible block-based workspace; Confluence is enterprise wiki tied to Jira.
$10B at October 2021 financing per Forbes.
Yes — AI writing, Q&A across workspace, and summarization features.
Freemium — free for personal use, paid tiers for teams.
Both doc-database hybrids; different block and formula models.
Startups, enterprises, and individuals — 100M+ users per company.
Not publicly disclosed.
a16z-backed enterprise SaaS reference company.

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